Articles from Vol. 11, No. 1, January-February

DID you note the change when you saw the cover of this first 2004 issue? As I noted in our last issue, we've been reworking MULTIMEDIA SCHOOLS, including making an unobtrusive but significant name change. We're now MULTIMEDIA &amp; INTERNET@SCHOOLS,...

I ARRIVED an hour early at the newly opened Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, where I was going to give a talk on "Emotions and Learning." I wanted to see this new campus. I must say that I was taken by the grandeur of the buildings...

THE INTERNET has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, and use information. But the promise of the Web...

IT'S BECOME clear to most educators that the uses for digital photography in day-to-day teaching, learning, and assessment processes are limited only by the imagination of the users and the availability of the equipment. Daily photographs of a growing...

FOR the past year and a half, I have written the MMS column "Making IT Work for Learning." In this column, I examined some of the institutional and pedagogical forces that shape instructional technology. Beginning with this issue of the new MMIS, my...

CONTRARY to popular belief, musty libraries haven't disappeared; they are there, waiting for media specialists who love challenge and change. Perhaps you've been hired to upgrade a 1950s-era school library into a media center and program for the...

MATHEMATICS is the study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets using numbers and symbols. It is also dazzling, magical, perplexing, challenging, cool, awesome, and fun. Research has shown that the more-abstract concepts...

Editor's note: In the November/December 2003 issue of MULTIMEDIA SCHOOLS in the "DirectConnect space, Stephen Abram presented Part 1 of an informative essay on what he sees as important trends school library media specialists should be watching for....

EDUCATIONAL initiatives that prepare students for 21st-century living must unite revolutionary teaching tools with an evolution in teaching methodologies. The Teaching and Learning Initiative we educators and administrators of the Henrico County (Virginia)...

Editor's Note: Do you follow any library or technology listservs? I do. I find pearls of wisdom on them, and some great discussions of issues school library media specialists and technologists deal with. When I read Gall Combs' posting a while back...